Timothy gingras



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T. G'INGRAS.

BELT FASTENBR. No. 380,104. 7 Patented Mar, 27,1888;

Witnesses: Inventor:

N. FEIERS. Pholoiiflmgraphar. Wnhingiun. D.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TIMOTHY GINGRAS, OE BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

BELT- FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,104, dated March 27, 1888.

Application filed J une 23, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY GINGRAS, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful 5 Improvements in Belting; and I- do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

My present invention has general reference to improvements in belting; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar arrangement of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings already mentioned, which serve to illustrate my said inventionmore fully, Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of belt provided with my improved fastening. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation centrally through the I belt. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are detail views of the belt-fastener.

The object of my present invention is the production of a simple, durable, and cheap joint for leather, rubber, rawhide, cotton, and other belting. Io attain this end I construct this belt A by either scarfing or butting the 0 ends B together and then fastening the pieces in the joints by driving double-pointed Staples 0 through the belting in such a way that the points a c of said staples will pass through the belt a distance at least equal to the thickness 3 5 of said belt. I then turn the points and drive them back into or through the leather or other material on opposite sides of the body of said Serial No. 205,975. (No model.)

staple, as shown at G C, Fig. 2, which so securely holds the pieces together (a suitable number of said staples being used for a given width of belting) that the jointed portion is stronger than the body of the belt.

subject-matter of a separate application filed I simultaneously with this present one,) but they mayin many cases be ordinary blind-staples or fence-wire staples, care being taken to use those only that are long enough to at least clinch oncein the belting. Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States In combination with the contiguous sections of a belt, the staples 0, having their points passed through contiguous parts of said sections and then bent back into or through the same on opposite sides of the body of each staple, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. TIMOTHY GINGRAS.

Attest:

MICHAEL J. STARK,

JEssIE A. TULLEY. 

